Employment disputes are increasingly centered on the conflicting moral and religious values of corporations, their employees, and their customers. These conflicts are especially challenging when they involve the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) employees and customers contraposed against the religious beliefs of corporations and their owners. When religious values compete with civil rights in the employment context, a complex web of legal protections renders the outcome unclear. Conflicts over these competing rights can involve a number of broad, thorny legal disputes, including those concerning the First Amendment and Title VII, fights between secular and religious beliefs, and competition between religious beliefs and equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment. This article illustrates the reasons for this growing tension between the beliefs of business owners and the beliefs of their employees. It explores recent conflicts between religion and rights in the workplace particularly in the context of LGBTQ rights, the ways in which state‐level regulation complicates these conflicts, and the potential impact of recent cases addressing these concerns. It also identifies examples of potential specific conflicts in the context of LGBTQ rights and suggests the principles that should guide the resolution of these cases, offering a framework for assessing the hierarchy that a court may use in resolving cases in which values conflict with rights in the workplace. Finally, it addresses some of the troubling implications that arise as a result of the resolution of the potential specific conflicts.

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信仰诉信仰：解决宗教场所中的LGBTQ权利冲突

雇佣纠纷越来越多地集中在公司，员工和客户之间相互矛盾的道德和宗教价值观上。当这些冲突涉及到与公司及其所有者的宗教信仰相抵触的女同性恋，男同性恋，双性恋，变性者和酷儿/询问（LGBTQ）雇员和客户的权利时，这些挑战尤其具有挑战性。当宗教价值观在就业环境中与公民权利竞争时，复杂的法律保护网络将使结果不清楚。这些竞争权的冲突可能涉及许多广泛而棘手的法律争端，包括与第一修正案和第七章有关的争端，世俗和宗教信仰之间的争斗以及宗教信仰与《十四条修正案》之间的平等保护权之间的竞争。本文说明了企业主的信念与雇员的信念之间日益紧张的原因。它探讨了工作场所中宗教与权利之间的最近冲突，尤其是在LGBTQ权利的背景下，州级法规使这些冲突复杂化的方式以及近期解决这些问题的潜在影响。它还确定了LGBTQ权利背景下可能发生的特定冲突的示例，并提出了指导这些案件解决的原则，并提供了一个框架，用于评估法院在解决价值与权利冲突中的权利的案件时可以使用的层次结构。工作场所。最后，它解决了由于解决潜在的特定冲突而产生的一些令人担忧的影响。